Storage
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Storage may refer to:
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Storage of goods
- Warehouse A warehouse is a commercial building for storage of goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial areas of cities and towns. They usually have loading docks to load and unload goods from trucks. Sometimes warehouses load and, a commercial building for storage of goods
- Self storage The term "self storage" is short for "self-service storage", and is also known as "mini storage" or "mini warehouse" 1. . Self storage facilities lease space to individuals, usually storing household goods, or to small businesses, usually storing excess inventory or archived records. The rented spaces, known, public storage facility
Containers
- Dry cask storage Dry cask storage is a method of storing high-level radioactive waste, such as spent nuclear fuel that has already been cooled in the spent fuel pool for at least one year. The fuel is surrounded by inert gas inside a large container. These casks are typically steel cylinders that are either welded or bolted closed. Ideally, the steel cylinder, storing high-level radioactive waste
- Food storage Grain is stored in rigid sealed containers to prevent ingress of moisture or attack by vermin. For domestic quantities metal cans are used
- Intermodal container An intermodal container or freight container is a reusable transport and storage unit for moving products and raw materials between locations or countries; the terms container or box may be used on their own within the context of shipping. Containers manufactured to ISO specifications may be referred to as ISO containers and the term high-cube, cargo shipping
- Storage tank A storage tank is a container, usually for holding liquids, sometimes for compressed gases . The term can be used for reservoirs (artificial lakes and ponds), and for manufactured containers. The usage of the word tank for reservoirs is common or universal in Indian English, American English and moderately common in British English. In other
- use lower shelves for heavy things
Information storage
- Storage (memory) The human memory has three processes: encoding , storage (throughput) and retrieval(output). Storage is the process of retaining information whether in the sensory memory, the short-term memory or the more permanent long-term memory, a psychological and physiological process
- Data storage device A data storage device is a device for recording information (data). Recording can be done using virtually any form of energy, spanning from manual muscle power in handwriting, to acoustic vibrations in phonographic recording, to electromagnetic energy modulating magnetic tape and optical discs, computer hardware
- Computer data storage Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, refers to computer components, devices, and recording media that retain digital data used for computing for some interval of time. Computer data storage provides one of the core functions of the modern computer, that of information retention. It is one of the fundamental components of all, a computer process and result
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See also
- All pages beginning with "Storage"
- All pages with titles containing "Storage"
- Store (disambiguation)
- Container (disambiguation)
- Inventory (disambiguation)
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